In Your Skin ~ Dominique Haller at the NHAA

The New Hampshire Art Association presents "In Your Skin," the work of Dominique Haller, on Saturday, July 27.

The New Hampshire Art Association presents "In Your Skin," the work of Dominique Haller, on Saturday, July 27.

The public is invited to an artist reception on Saturday, July 27 from 5:30 — 7:30 p.m.

Dominique Haller was born and raised in Switzerland, where she received an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Basel. During and after her studies, she worked as a documentary filmmaker in Switzerland, France, and the United States for several years. After relocating to the United States in 2009, she was accepted as a graduate student in Art to the University of Wisconsin—Madison Art Department, where she currently studies towards her MFA.

Her work has been shown at the DocLisboa Film Festival in Portugal, the Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland, Chazen Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin.

Haller believes that as an extension of our bodies, domestic spaces form and inform who we are. The domestic space is alive with subliminal forces that range from affection and love to aggression and hurt. The material make-up of the domestic space is made of intimately familiar yet often sullied surfaces that comfort and, at times, disgust us. The domestic space thus acts as an agent of both protection and friction to our physical and emotional existence. Our lived experience in it invariably leaves a lasting impression on us.

"In Your Skin" examines the intersection between the domestic space and our embodied sense of self. Inconspicuous yet ubiquitous domestic materials, such as carpet, glue, and thread, act as metaphors and signifiers for our life-long entanglement with the domestic spaces that have shaped and continue to shape us.

The New Hampshire Art Association is a non-profit professional art association founded in 1940. It is one of the oldest statewide art associations in the country. It consists of more than 420 members of painters, photographers, watercolorists, printmakers, sculptors, and other fine artists living and working primarily in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont.

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